Leaders

mid-morning on Sunday, the 1st of February 2004 by Chad

This is a copy of a post from democrats give conservatives indigestion, a fine new conservative blog.

Let’s take a look at some of Democratic front-runner John Kerry’s accomplishments in his long career as a tax and spend, more-liberal-than-Ted Kennedy senator:

Voted against funding our troops in Iraq, one of only twelve senators to do so.
Voted for at least seven major reductions in defense and military spending.
Voted repeatedly to slash the budgets of intelligence agencies by billions of dollars.
Voted for the largest tax increase ever.
Voted for the death tax.
Voted against a Balanced Budget Amendment at least five times.
Voted for a fifty-percent increase in the gasoline tax.
Voted against a ban on partial-birth abortion at least three times.
Voted against the Defense of Marriage Act, one of only fourteen senators to do so.
Voted against requiring parental notification for minors’ abortions.
Voted against mandatory sentences for drug dealers.
Voted to filibuster President Bush’s judicial nominees.
Voted against the death penalty for terrorists and cop killers.
Kerry’s voting record is more liberal than Ted Kennedy’s, according to Americans for Democratic Action, the premier liberal rating group. This radical VietNam war protestor wants US troops dispersed throughout the world “only at the direction of the United Nations”.

This is just my way to help make sure that everyone knows where the candidates stand. The media is already trying to make Kerry sound like a moderate. If they trumpet that fact over and over again, enough misunderinformed voters might buy it and vote without knowing the truth…
Looks like Senator “Special Interests” Kerry isn’t going to make friends on the Washington Post today.

Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.), who has made a fight against corporate special interests a centerpiece of his front-running campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, has raised more money from paid lobbyists than any other senator over the past 15 years, federal records show.